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Winnipeg Free Press
16 hours ago
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- Winnipeg Free Press
Leslie Jamison wins Writers' Trust award for international non-fiction author
American author and essayist Leslie Jamison has won this year's $75,000 Weston International Award. The prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada, recognizes the career achievement of a non-fiction writer from outside of Canada. Jurors praise Jamison's 'mastery of language' and say she brings rigorous scholarship to writing about her most intimate thoughts. Jamison's non-fiction work includes the essay collections 'The Empathy Exams' and 'Make It Scream, Make It Burn' and the memoirs 'The Recovering' and 'Splinters.' She also teaches at Columbia University, where she directs the non-fiction Masters of Fine Arts program. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. The Writers' Trust plans to host an on-stage interview with Jamison at the Royal Ontario Museum in September. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 18, 2025.
Hamilton Spectator
16 hours ago
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- Hamilton Spectator
Leslie Jamison wins Writers' Trust award for international non-fiction author
American author and essayist Leslie Jamison has won this year's $75,000 Weston International Award. The prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada, recognizes the career achievement of a non-fiction writer from outside of Canada. Jurors praise Jamison's 'mastery of language' and say she brings rigorous scholarship to writing about her most intimate thoughts. Jamison's non-fiction work includes the essay collections 'The Empathy Exams' and 'Make It Scream, Make It Burn' and the memoirs 'The Recovering' and 'Splinters.' She also teaches at Columbia University, where she directs the non-fiction Masters of Fine Arts program. The Writers' Trust plans to host an on-stage interview with Jamison at the Royal Ontario Museum in September. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 18, 2025.
Washington Post
15-02-2025
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- Washington Post
If the marriage plot is an ailment, is the divorce plot the cure?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a newly divorced woman in possession of literary talents must be in want of a book contract. The past year has yielded a barrage of autobiographical meditations on divorce. February 2024 brought two best-selling memoirs, the journalist Lyz Lenz's crudely polemical 'This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life' and the essayist Leslie Jamison's soggily uplifting 'Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story.' Next came 'All Fours,' a gorgeous riot of a novel by the artist and writer Miranda July, and 'Liars,' a sleek and irradiatingly angry fiction in fragments by the poet and novelist Sarah Manguso. As a rule, these books had similar structures. They all began with a strained marriage, hurtled toward a rupture or a reconfiguration, and ended when their female narrators gained a new sense of serenity.
